BitMine's ether treasury has crossed 6 million tokens, about 4.9% of all ETH, and it has staked 5.07 million of them, worth roughly $13.8 billion. With treasury stocks no longer trading at a premium, the real story is why staking yield has become the center of the strategy.
Blast, an Ethereum layer 2 that once held more than $2 billion, is winding down after its value locked fell about 98% and costs outran revenue. Users have until October 26 to withdraw. It is the latest in a wave of 2026 layer 2 closures as the market thins.
BlackRock's new paper, The Machine-Native Economy, argues autonomous AI agents will become a major source of stablecoin demand, settling machine to machine payments for data, APIs, and compute. It also floats tokenized compute as a new asset class, while conceding the market is early.
ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve the Binance MiCA license, the WSJ reports. Greece had signaled approval to ESMA in early June before Binance withdrew on June 24. Greek officials deny interfering, and Binance declined to comment on speculation.
The US Senate blocked the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 procedural vote on September 15, 2026. This explainer covers what the crypto market structure bill would do, who introduced it, how it passed the House, and why ethics, banks, and Democrats stalled it in the Senate.
Fundly.ai raised $4 million in an early-stage round led by existing backers Accel and Multiply, with former RBL Bank executive Rajeev Ahuja and angels joining, plus $0.9 million in venture debt. The Mumbai startup is scaling B2B commerce, payments, and embedded credit in pharma distribution.
MENA crypto volume climbed to an estimated $350 billion by 2025-2026 from about $100 billion in 2022, according to the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Turkey leads by transaction value, the UAE by institutional flows, and Saudi Arabia by growth, as conflict and regulation reshape demand.
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on August 24 for the first time since May 15, backed by $1.92 billion in weekly ETF inflows and over $4 billion in liquidated shorts. One trader maps a path back to $45,000, while Bernstein holds $150,000 and Citi's base case sits at $82,000.
Pi Network began deploying Protocol 27 to Testnet 1 on August 21, with September 15, 2026 as the Mainnet target. The Core Team calls it the final planned upgrade in the current sequence, adding smart-contract authentication and groundwork for RPC servers, DEX functions, and AMM pools.
Boltz has disabled its Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid swaps indefinitely after months of automated, AI-assisted probing of its infrastructure. The non-custodial bridge says no user funds were at risk, though attackers now iterate faster than its team can patch.
Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX will shut down on September 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent company HDR Global Trading. Users have been asked to close open positions and withdraw their assets ahead of the closure as the platform begins an orderly wind down.
Alpaca has raised $135 million led by Peak XV, with participation from Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound. Total new financing hits $435 million with debt from Kraken parent Payward and BMO, as the broker scales infrastructure for tokenized markets and AI-native finance.
Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional funding round since its 2016 founding. The capital will fund a push into tokenized securities and derivatives as crypto fundraising sinks to its lowest level since 2020.
Attackers backdoored the official Injective npm SDK on July 8, 2026, planting code that stole crypto wallet seed phrases and private keys across 18 packages. The poisoned version was downloaded 310 times before a clean release shipped. Here is how the attack worked.
Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance has floated ending the one-year crypto tax exemption as part of its 2027 budget. If passed, all crypto gains would become taxable regardless of holding period, ending a key perk for long-term holders.
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Chinese exile Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for a $1 billion fraud that used his Himalaya Exchange crypto platform and political dissident branding to solicit victims worldwide.
Trezor Academy's "Seeding Bitcoin" documentary charts how Bitcoin functions as everyday money across Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa recorded $205B in on-chain value in 2025, up 52%. Trezor's shop now accepts donations for Global South Bitcoin education.
The CoinDCX H1 2026 report shows Indian crypto investors traded ₹14,664 crore in the first half of the year while Bitcoin fell roughly 51%. Assets under custody rose across every generation, led by Gen Z at 63%, and Bitcoin's share of traded volume climbed to 22.43%.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT says an X user who asked him to unfreeze 5.73 BTC at Changelly instead exposed an alleged Indian scam ring tied to over $1M in thefts targeting Americans, including elderly victims, since 2025. The account was later deleted.
From Morpho's $175M raise to Digital Asset's $355M Canton round, web3 funding in early June 2026 chased onchain infrastructure for institutions. We rank the five biggest crypto funding rounds from June 1 to June 13, with leads, participants, and the risks attached to each.
Strategy bought 1,550 Bitcoin for about $101 million on Monday, its first purchase below cost basis, days after a $2.5 million sale that helped tip Bitcoin into a 14% crash. The weekend rebound to $63,700 wiped out $504 million in short positions as an on-chain metric neared past bottom levels.
Trezor and Tropic Square have disclosed a TROPIC01 chip vulnerability in the Safe 7 hardware wallet, uncovered during an independent Ledger Donjon audit using a laser fault injection attack. The flaw affects one of three security layers, and Trezor says user funds remain safe.
Bitcoin's price crash pulled BTC below $65,000 on Tuesday, a two-month low, after Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time in nearly four years. The selloff sparked $1.23 billion in liquidations, while Peter Schiff asked if the drop is a "harbinger" of trouble in risk assets.
Vecontra is a unified crypto research platform built by two engineering students to spare India's retail traders the cost and chaos of juggling five tools at once. Co-founder Prince Kumar on the pivot from a college price tracker, the guardrails on its Vicco AI, and the year ahead.
